School
Interests and activities
Friends
Family
Romantic relationships
Personality
Future goals
Food
Possessions
Money
Emotions and dreams
Memories and life events
Hypothetical and existential questions
School
- What is your favorite class in school? What do you like about it?
- What is your least favorite class in school? What don’t you like about it?
- Which class are you learning the most in?
- Which class are you learning the least in?
- Do you like going to school?
- Are you a part of any clubs at school? Which ones?
- If you were made a teacher for a day, which subject would you want to teach?
- Are there any bullies in your school? If so, how do you deal with them?
Interests and Activities
- What do you usually do after school?
- What are your hobbies?
- Do you play any video games? Which ones?
- Do you play any sports? Which ones?
- Do you collect anything? What is it?
- Do you play any musical instruments? Which one?
- What do you like to do most during the weekends?
- What type of music do you listen to?
- What is your favorite song at the moment?
- Do you like reading books? What’s the last book you read?
- What is something that you like to do when you're bored?
- Who is your favorite actor/actress?
- What is something that you feel passionately about in life?
- How would describe your perfect day?
- What talents or skills do you have?
- Do you speak any other languages? Which ones?
- Where is your favorite place to hang out? What do you like about it?
- If you could marry any celebrity in the world, who would it be?
Friends
- What makes someone a good friend?
- What makes someone a bad friend?
- Do you tend to have just one or two good friends, or do you have a large group of friends?
- Is there anyone at school that you would like to get to know better? Who is it?
- Would you be willing to die for your best friend?
- Do you have any friends that you’re worried about right now? Why?
- What traits do you look for when you’re trying to make a new friend?
Family
- On a scale of 1 to 10, how strict are your parents?
- Are you closer to your mom or dad?
- Do you have chores at home? What are they?
- Do you have siblings? Where are you in the birth order?
- Do you get along with your siblings?
- What was the last disagreement you had with your siblings about?
Romantic Relationships
- Is there anyone you have a crush on right now?
- What do you look for in a boyfriend/girlfriend?
- At your school, are there a lot of people who are in romantic relationships?
- If you could marry any celebrity, who would it be?
- Are you dating someone right now?
- Would you rather date someone older or younger than you?
- Do you think you might like to get married some day?
Personality
- Would you consider yourself to be more of a shy person or an outgoing person?
- Have you ever wanted to be popular?
- What would you say is one of your weaknesses?
- Are you more of an indoor person or an outdoor person?
- Are you a cat person or a dog person?
- What joke never fails to make you laugh?
- Who are your heroes and what qualities do you admire about them?
- Is there someone who you think looks up to you? Who is it, and what do you think they look up to about you?
- What is something that you really like about yourself?
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be and why?
Future Goals
- What is your ultimate goal in life?
- What scares you the most about the future?
- What is your dream job?
- What are your plans for the future?
- Do you have a bucket list? What are the top two or three things on that list?
- Do you have any role models? Who are they, and why do you look up to them?
- What do you plan to do after you graduate from school?
- At what age would you like to live on your own?
- What do you think your life would look like 10 years from now?
- What do you think the world will be like 25 years from now?
- What is the weirdest food you have ever eaten? Would you eat it again?
Food
- What is your favorite food?
- What is your favorite dessert?
- What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
- What do you usually eat for lunch at school?
- Which is your favorite meal of the day?
- What is your favorite restaurant?
- If you could have an unlimited supply of any food for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
- What is the weirdest food you have ever eaten? Where and when did you eat it?
Possessions
- Where do go shopping for your clothes?
- What is your favorite item of clothing? What do you love about it?
- Which possession do you cherish the most? Why?
- When you were young, did you have a favorite stuffed animal or toy?
- Do you like to keep your room neat and organized, or do you like it to be messy?
- If you were stranded on a desert island, which one possession would you want to have with you?
Money
- What was the last thing that you bought with your own money?
- What do you usually buy with your allowance money?
- Do you think it’s important to save for a rainy day?
- If someone gave you $1,000 and said you had to give it to charity, which charity would you choose and why?
- If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Emotions and Dreams
- What was the first thing that made you laugh today?
- What makes you thrilled and excited?
- What is the best part of your day?
- Do you ever feel lonely or left out?
- What scares you the most?
- What is your biggest worry in life?
- What helps you feel better when you’re upset or stressed out?
- Do you ever feel sad? What do you do to feel comforted?
- What are three things that you are grateful for today or this week?
- What hurts your feelings?
- What is your biggest fear?
- What is the most difficult thing in your life right now?
- Do you care about what other people think about you?
- Do you have any dark secrets?
- What's the best thing about being a teenager?
- What's the worst thing about being a teenager?
- What is the weirdest dream you’ve ever had?
- Do you have any recurring nightmares?
Memories and Life Events
- What is one of your earliest memories?
- Where did you go on your most recent vacation?
- What’s your greatest achievement so far?
- What’s your biggest regret in life so far?
- What is the most adventurous thing you have ever done in your life?
- What is the most embarrassing incident that has ever happened to you in your life?
- What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done?
- What is the weirdest or craziest thing you have ever done in your life?
- What is the best thing that has ever happened to you?
- Do you live by any life motto?
- If you were given the chance to become immortal, would you take it?
Hypothetical and Existential Questions
- Would you rather be five years younger or five years older?
- Would you rather burn to death or freeze to death?
- Would you rather have no arms or no legs?
- Would you rather live on the beach or in the mountains?
- Would you rather have no hearing or no sight?
- If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?
- If you could be any animal, which one would you be?
- Is it ever okay to lie?
- If you only had one month to live, how would you spend your time? With whom?
- What would your weapon of choice be if you were in a zombie apocalypse scenario?
- If you could have any super power, which one would you choose and why?
- How many second graders do you think you can handle in a fight before you’re overwhelmed by them?
- If you could travel anywhere in the world, all expenses paid, where would you go?
- If you died right now, is there something that you would definitely regret not saying or doing?
- If you were given the chance to become immortal, would you take it? Why or why not?
- If it were up to you, how would you change the world?
- If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
- If your life had a theme song, what would it be and why?
- If you could watch only one movie for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
- What would you want to be famous for?
- What would you like people to say about you after you die?
- Do you ever wish you could go back in time and be a little kid again?*
- What do you think is the meaning of life?
- What do you think happens after death?